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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Manado/Minahasa Food : Rica Rodo

Some minahasan or manadonese food such as ayam rica-rica or bubur manado (tinutuan) are very well known. But only few know about rica rodo. From its first word 'rica', it is supposed to be spicy. Yes, it is. But it is far from ayam rica-rica, because rica rodo is a vegetable dish.

Disclaimer:

This is not original rica rodo recipe. Some of the ingredients are not used or replaced by substitutes due to avalabillity or economical reasons. For example, long beans are substituted by green beans (french beans), smoked roa fish is substituted with ready made sambal ikan roa (bought in Manado), big red chillies are substituted by long red paprika. I use powder lemongrass instead of the fresh one.

When I searched in internet I found there are a lot of variations of ingredient combination were used in the recipes. So I decided to make the recipe based on my remaining taste memory of rica rodo.

some ingredients used in rica rodo

For me, the ingredients that I will not skip in making rica rodo are:

Chili (= rica)

Veggies trio: Eggplant, corn and long bean/green bean

Lemongrass

Fishy smell ingredients. In this case I use dried ebi and sambal roa.

Lime leaves

Here you are, my highly modified rica rodo recipe that bring me back to Manado for a few meals..